The Art of American Horology Part ll,...

Roosevelt Hotel, Madison Avenue @ 45th Street, Dec 04, 2002

LOT 686

Pennsylvania SpecialIllinois Watch Co., Springfield, Illinois, No. 2061427, 5th Model, Grade 175. Produced for the Pennsylvania Railroad circa 1907.Fine, gold-filled, Pennsylvania Railroad watch.

C. Three-piece, screw bezel and back, back with portrait of a Native Indian. D. White enamel, double-sunk with painted Arabic nume-rals, outer minute ring with 5-minute red Arabic markers, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel "Parallel Spade" hands. M. 16 size, nickel, 3/4 split plate, damascened and gold-washed, 21 jewels, the top ones in screwed settings, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance finely adjusted, blued steel Breguet balance-spring, Reed's patented whiplashmicrometric regulator, lever-set.Signed on dial and movement.Diam. 49 mm.